What grinds my gears

Escape Plan is a 2013 movie starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Disregarding the "The Expendables" saga (which is just... utterly forgettable), this is (to my knowledge) the first time that these famous actors make a significant main role appearance in the same film, and it marks some kind of return to the big screen for Schwarzenegger. So it better be awesome! However, while not utterly bad, the film was really meh. The major problem I had with the film is that it promised something it didn't deliver. Both its title, and very prominently its prologue, and somewhat throughout the middle of the film, we were promised a "prison escape" film of the "heist movie" kind. In other words, a meticulously crafted plan to escape an "inescapable" prison, where the viewer is only given hints about the ultimate means of escape, and then during the final escape or after it, all the finer details are shown, and all the actions that we...

(Note: I'm using "pathological" in the colloquial sense, not in the medical sense.) Being in time somewhere is a relatively simple task for most people. Most of people, me included, find it easy to plan ahead in cases where they need to be at a certain place at a certain time, even if this requires some simple logistics. For example, if I need to be at a certain place at 10 o'clock, I can plan my timing ahead of time, by working backwards: Since I need to get there on a bus, I can estimate how long it will take me to walk from the final bus stop to that place. I can also estimate (or check if I don't know it) how long the bus takes from the bus stop near my home to that destination. From this information I know how much earlier than 10 o'clock I need to depart. Of course since buses don't travel whenever I need them, I have to check their itinerary and select one that arrives at my bus stop earlier than that time. Long story short, if I estimate it t...